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A contempory mid 19th Century wooden model of the Type 31 steam/sail corvette H.M.S. 'Tribune' of 1853 with later masting, rigging and sails -- 42 x 51in (106.5 x 129.5cm)
With masts, spars with stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging and full suit of furled linen sails and deck details including carved female figurehead, anchors with bound wooden stocks, catheads, grattings, stove pipe, belaying rails, companionways, hammock nettings, capstan, ship's wheel, six ship's boats and upper deck armourment, the Armstrong bow gun on a swivel slide. The hull, with quarter windows, propeller and rudder is finished in 'copper' to the waterline, black and white with brown upper works (some old damage and restoration). Stand, display base and perspex cover.
Provenance: Ex.T.Thornycroft Esq.
Note: c.f. The National Maritime Museum records (P.J/J.C/vol 1). This model possibly depicts a wood screw corvette, similar to Tribune 1853, and that Thornycroft's may have supplied the power plant.
Note: The wooden screw corvette Tribune 1,570 tons, was built at Sheerness and launched on 21 January 1853. Armed with 1-10in gun and 30-32 pounders, she measured 192 feet in length and had a 43 foot beam. Shortly after she was commissioned the Crimean War broke out and Tribune, along with mnay other steam-assisted vessels, was sent to the Black Sea to join the fleet assembling there to aid the army. In action at the First Bombardment on 16 June 1855 which accelerated the fall of the fortress in September that year.
After the Crimean campaign finished, Tribune was dispatched to eastern waters where the Second China War had begun early in 1857. On 25 May, Tribune was amongst Commodore Elliot's squadron which destroyed twenty-seven 'snake' boats of the Chinese fleet which were lying in the Canton River at Escape Creek. Tribune's boats were in action again two days later when thirteen junks were destroyed at Tungkun on the Canton River, and this latter action effectively ended the naval side of the war which then became a land based campaign. Tribune saw no further active service other than her routine colonial police work and she was eventually sold out of the navy in August 1866.
With masts, spars with stun's'l booms, standing and running rigging and full suit of furled linen sails and deck details including carved female figurehead, anchors with bound wooden stocks, catheads, grattings, stove pipe, belaying rails, companionways, hammock nettings, capstan, ship's wheel, six ship's boats and upper deck armourment, the Armstrong bow gun on a swivel slide. The hull, with quarter windows, propeller and rudder is finished in 'copper' to the waterline, black and white with brown upper works (some old damage and restoration). Stand, display base and perspex cover.
Provenance: Ex.T.Thornycroft Esq.
Note: c.f. The National Maritime Museum records (P.J/J.C/vol 1). This model possibly depicts a wood screw corvette, similar to Tribune 1853, and that Thornycroft's may have supplied the power plant.
Note: The wooden screw corvette Tribune 1,570 tons, was built at Sheerness and launched on 21 January 1853. Armed with 1-10in gun and 30-32 pounders, she measured 192 feet in length and had a 43 foot beam. Shortly after she was commissioned the Crimean War broke out and Tribune, along with mnay other steam-assisted vessels, was sent to the Black Sea to join the fleet assembling there to aid the army. In action at the First Bombardment on 16 June 1855 which accelerated the fall of the fortress in September that year.
After the Crimean campaign finished, Tribune was dispatched to eastern waters where the Second China War had begun early in 1857. On 25 May, Tribune was amongst Commodore Elliot's squadron which destroyed twenty-seven 'snake' boats of the Chinese fleet which were lying in the Canton River at Escape Creek. Tribune's boats were in action again two days later when thirteen junks were destroyed at Tungkun on the Canton River, and this latter action effectively ended the naval side of the war which then became a land based campaign. Tribune saw no further active service other than her routine colonial police work and she was eventually sold out of the navy in August 1866.